i mention the decline of shark week, and you somehow relate it to how "banks love screwing people over" and how social security and pensions "were cool at some point" but are "fucking up" economies today? economics is an unfathomably difficult science to crack, forgive me if i need a moment to comprehend your academic jargon.

are you just some kid who's pissed off at everything (hey, we all were at one time) that's attached himself (kinda) to the libertarian brand of rebellion (you think) because you've overheard a lot of uninformed masturbatory remarks regarding how everyone - the government, the corporations - everything!!! is out to get you.

you may be right. i may be wrong. but i'm gonna bet on neither of us being so important that the me major institutions give a fuck. and before you write off social security and pensions, open yer fucking history book and read some first hand accounts of workers pre-unions. unions fought for the right to collective bargaining, the 40 hour work week, overtime pay, workers' comp, child labor regulations, maternity leave...the list goes on. so if you wanna give any of those back, you thankless fuck, stay on that anti-union bandwagon. unions aren't perfect and they get political and influential, but nothing like the corporations they futilely fight to stave off, especially after citizens united. corruption exists at the union level for sure, but it's a grain on the beach of corporate corruption. if you wanna be a rebel, seriously, get a job where you work with your hands, and demand that the bloodsuckers above you who get better pay treat you right. that may be some 100 year old radicalism, but things have shifted so far it's still radical today. fight the power, not your fellow worker.